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    Toronto Maple Leafs extend Vancouver Canucks’ skid to eight games with 6-3 win in fight-filled affai

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    Post by jedi17 Sun 06 Nov 2016, 8:08 pm

    Toronto Maple Leafs extend Vancouver Canucks’ skid to eight games with 6-3 win in fight-filled affair

    TORONTO — For a team that didn’t know how to put the third-period hammer down in the first month of the season, the Toronto Maple Leafs are now swinging wildly.
    That included a rough house exclamation point in Saturday’s 6-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks, Toronto’s third straight, that could see Nazem Kadri among others face some NHL discipline. Two teams with no recent history of Slap Shot shenanigans were slashing, pitch forking and fighting in a third period that saw most of the game’s 171 penalty minutes and both goalies getting ejected.
    “I haven’t seen any of that rodeo stuff since junior, but they got excited and we got excited,” said Toronto coach Mike Babcock, whose teams rarely get involved in such antics.
    As Daniel Sedin scored in the final period with the Leafs up three, Kadri blindsided him and was assessed a charging major and game misconduct, after Jannik Hansen went after him with fists flying. Kadri didn’t use his stick or part of the body, but as a repeat offender, he’s on the league radar. 
    Hansen was in a foul mood after Morgan Rielly decked him with a legal hit earlier in the shift, perhaps what the sagging Vancouver bench needed as they were in the midst of dropping their eighth straight.


    Three more fights ensued, including Ryan Miller leaving his crease to get at Matt Martin, with Frederik Andersen coming down from the Toronto crease to join the fray, briefly grabbing hold of a Canuck.

    “I saw Marty get mauled by a couple of guys and I got involved,” said Andersen, whose shot workload dropped below 30 after climbing over 40 in wins against Edmonton and Buffalo. “Miller got involved, too, so I had to help out a little bit. We were outnumbered. Given what was going on before, you wanted to get down there because it was looking like they didn’t want to play much. But I wouldn’t really say (his) was a fight.”
    Battles between Derek Dorsett-Leo Komarov and Alex Burrows-Rielly erupted before the goalies got involved. The shedded armour from the Burrows-Rielly scrap was being collected as a fired-up sellout crowd sang along to Sweet Caroline.
    “They were obviously upset by the hits from Rielly and Naz,” said Babcock, who wanted to shift the topic to the Leafs being 4-1 in five home games. “Our team came out with a lot of energy on a Saturday night. I said to Marty, ‘just go out and finish the game and boys will be boys.’”
    The Leafs, who protected a fifth third-period lead after an early series of blown opportunities, were led by the line of Bozak, James van Riemsdyk and Mitch Marner. It was the rookie Marner with the fifth-goal dagger, beating Erik Gudbranson to a Bozak pass and snapping it high on Miller for his third in two games. Bozak scored twice, once on the power play.
    A fourth straight Leaf win here on Tuesday against the Kings would be most since a six-game streak back in Decemeber 2014, Randy Carlyle’s last high point before being replaced by Peter Horacek.
    “Stuff like that happens, but we have a little streak going and we have to stay positive,” Bozak said. “I’m not one to judge that (league review) stuff. They’ll take a look at it and figure it out themselves. Like I said, we’re just happy with the win, we have to keep getting better and learning how to win and stick to it.
    The Canucks have a league-low 20 goals in 12 games, which has dumbfounded coach Willie Desjardins and pushed him into the firing line despite the players being capable of much better. When Toronto went up by two in the first period, outshooting the Canucks 17-7, it made a comeback all the more difficult. There were just eight Canucks on the bench at the end of the night.
    The Leafs defence seemed particularly active on the rush and it paid off handsomely when Nikita Zaitsev wheeled in behind the net and found Kadri open. Miller, coming in with a record of 32-18-3 against the Leafs — forged from his days in Buffalo — had been a wall to that point, but Kadri beat him high.
    Right after killing a van Riemsdyk interference call — and not allowing a shot — the same players stayed on the ice for a 2-on-1 that Bozak chipped in for his fourth goal.
    That marked the first time this season that Toronto’s top two centres scored in the same game, while Auston Matthews just missed at the end of the period, trying to break a five-game drought. He eventually assisted on the sixth Leaf goal by Jake Gardiner. Dorsett made it 2-1, but Bozak replied on the power play.
    Daniel Sedin went to the dressing room after the Kadri hit with the Canucks down to eight men at the end with so many ejected and Jacob Markstrom replacing Miller in net. Henrik Sedin closed the gap a couple of minutes later. After Andersen forced him outside with a stretched pad, Sedin was loose again in front with plenty of time to deke.

    If you’re keeping track of the twins’ success against the Leafs, that’s 23 points in 26 games for Henrik, while Daniel has 25 in 26.
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